Research has revealed a pair of associated news articles published in the Morning Herald , a New York City newspaper, on July 11 and July 12, 1839 that together contain the most detailed and astonishingly extensive account of President Martin Van Buren's visit to Hunter's Island in the Town of Pelham on July 9-10, 1839.
Today is the twelfth anniversary of the commencement of the Historic Pelham Blog. The first posting was: Tue., Feb. 08, 2005: Searching Historic Newspapers Online for Information About Pelham .
There is a lovely, and some might say unique, two-story home located at 467 Pelhamdale Avenue in the Village of Pelham Manor that is only eighteen feet wide. Moreover, it sits on a lot that is only twenty-five feet wide.
On Tuesday, October 18, 1927, the local chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution unveiled a New York State historic marker on the Hutchinson River Parkway near the home known as "Pelhamdale," located at 45 Iden Avenue in Pelham Manor. The home is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The former Controller of the Pelham Country club in Pelham has been sentenced for embezzling over $719,000 from the Club. Westchester County District Attorney Anthony A. Scarpino, Jr. announced that Gretchen Wauchope, 48, of Ardsley, will serve time in state prison for Grand Larceny and Tax Fraud.
The origins of the Village of Pelham Manor can be traced back to March 2, 1866, when a newspaper notice announced an intent to incorporate the Harlem River and Portchester Railroad. The railroad was intended to run parallel to Long Island Sound to open up to development a vast section including the Pelham shoreline from Pelham Bridge to New Rochelle.
On August 8, 1909, a man named Fontaine Fox arrived with his wife at the Pelham Station in the Village of North Pelham. The couple hopped on the rickety little trolley that met all the trains.
For a number of years after the New Haven Branch Line stopped running passenger service in December, 1937 at the beautiful little Pelham Manor Depot designed by noted architect Cass Gilbert, a model railroad club was permitted to use the empty station. The Westchester Model Club, Inc. built a massive model railroad that even included a tiny replica of the very Pelham Manor Depot within which the model railroad sat.
... the northeast including the Old Boston Post Road. The section of that famous roadway that passes through the Town of Pelham is known today as "Colonial Avenue." The Beginnings of the Old Boston Post Road The brief stretch of the Old Boston Post Road ...
... 1889 . In that post I noted that I had never been able to locate any images of the structure. Thankfully, the Town of Pelham is blessed to have a number of talented and dedicated historians devoted to the history of the Town and the surrounding ...
... years. They were proud of the technological progress that prompted construction of trolley service to connect Pelham with surrounding Villages, Towns, and Cities. They were proud of their three "artistic" railroad stations: the Pelham Station, the ...
When the New York Athletic Club of New York City bought the island it renamed "Travers Island" in Pelham Manor, there stood on the island a beautiful old home known as the "Old Hunter House." Named after John Hunter of Hunter's Island who had remodeled and improved the home during the mid-19th century, the main portion of the home was said to have been built in 1812 for Temple Emmett, a member of the Emmett Family that long resided in the area.
In the early years after the founding of the New York Athletic Club facility on Travers Island in 1888, whenever a major event was held on the island all of Pelham buzzed with activity. Trains rolled into and out of the Pelhamville station on the New Haven Main Line and the Pelham Manor depot on the Branch Line.